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[-] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I had such a deep sense of dread reading this article. I dont even have the energy to Baudrillard post but i'll do a quick one anyway

Its founder, Eugenia Kuyda – who initially created the tech as an attempt to resurrect her closest friend as a chatbot after he was killed by a car

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, which are a more ductile material than meaning, in that they lend themselves to all systems of equivalence ... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection which no longer leaves any chance even in the event of death.

  • Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

Damn, I gotta reread Simulacra and Simulation

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